<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Yeechang Lee <<a href="mailto:ylee@pobox.com">ylee@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<everything></blockquote><div><br>Funny!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:09 PM, <<a href="mailto:ccmail@bellsouth.net">ccmail@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div> I just
left the Kennedy Space Center after working there off and on for eight
years. They use a handful of 1970's-vintage MODCOMP mini-computers to
launch the shuttle (they actually have the lights and switches on the
front for manually accessing the address and data buses). MODCOMP went
out of business shortly after the first shuttle launch and for a while
KSC was having to resort to finding spare parts on eBay. <br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div></div>Scary!<br><br> <br></div></div><br>